Substantial evidence exists which shows that multiple articulatory configurations are able to produce the same acoustic signal.
The motor programs producing the elementary speech sounds can be redirected to produce bodily movement other than that of the articulatory organs.
From this movement in turn is derived the articulatory gesture, the utterance relating to the perceived object.
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Articulatory phonology does not take the goal to be auditory.